Abstract
In mineral processing engineering disciplines, flotation, as a primary beneficiation method, is performed on the basis of surface chemical properties of minerals and rocks. The surface chemistry of minerals and rocks can be artificially changed to achieve minerals flotation separation. Thus chemistry plays a very important role in mineral processing engineering disciplines. Analysis shows that inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and physical chemistry are all required courses for undergraduate students majoring in mineral processing engineering. Analytical chemistry and further quantum chemistry for advanced talent training at the graduate education level are necessary. Chemistry lays the foundation for realizing resource use in efficiency, integration and cleanliness, and plays a significant role in wastewater recycling, zero discharge and environment protection. Emphasizing chemistry education and improving chemistry expertise are an important guarantee for environment protection and sustainable development of mineral resources exploitation and utilization.
Highlights
In the process of development and utilization of mineral resources, the principle of mineral separation and concentration is based on the differences in the physicochemical properties of useful minerals and gangue minerals
Such physicochemical properties are mineral specific gravity, magnetic, electrical, and surface chemical properties, and correspondingly the mineral separation and enrichment methods consist of gravity concentration, magneto-electric beneficiation, flotation, respectively, which are applied in a fairly small area because of the limitations imposed by the difficulties in changing mineral specific gravity, magnetic and electrical properties
The artificial change in mineral surface properties can be achieved, flotation has been widely used in mineral processing engineering, so to speak, all mineral separation and concentration can be operated by flotation method
Summary
In the process of development and utilization of mineral resources, the principle of mineral separation and concentration is based on the differences in the physicochemical properties of useful minerals and gangue minerals. The artificial change in mineral surface properties can be achieved, flotation has been widely used in mineral processing engineering, so to speak, all mineral separation and concentration can be operated by flotation method. It is universally accepted that chemistry is an important and basic subject for mineral processing engineering disciplines because flotation process, the theoretical basis of which is chemistry, is widely used in mineral separation and enrichment. The surface properties of minerals and rocks can be artificially adjusted and changed as needed, thereby expanding the difference of the surface properties between minerals separated, to achieve effective separation between the minerals[1]. The importance is attached to chemical education, can talent training in mineral processing disciplines be well realized
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